Been on the hunt for a rifle like the very first one I bought with my own money. A Glenfield Model 60 with the squirrel stamped on the stock. Haven't been able to find any under $300 that weren't just completely trashed. Man, the model 60 was always the "cheap" .22. Found a very nice 10/22 for $199, was tempted to buy it just based on price, but I passed.
How much are nice Model 60's going for in your neck of the woods? I'll head to the Reno gun show next weekend to see what I can find.
Been on the hunt for a rifle like the very first one I bought with my own money. A Glenfield Model 60 with the squirrel stamped on the stock. Haven't been able to find any under $300 that weren't just completely trashed. Man, the model 60 was always the "cheap" .22. Found a very nice 10/22 for $199, was tempted to buy it just based on price, but I passed.
How much are nice Model 60's going for in your neck of the woods? I'll head to the Reno gun show next weekend to see what I can find.
When we get them in here in the shop we typically put $130-$150 on them, maybe $175 for a cherry one. Haven't seen one in a year or two though. That was my first gun with my own money as well. $45 brand new at Woolco.
Dirt- My opinion also. 10-22's can be made to shoot lights out but ......................................................... the dinero can get pricy. lol
Local big city ffl has at least two used model 60s, both under $300 - though they are used, both are JM. And about a dozen 10/22 s. But No one should buy a $200 10/22 just to throw another $600 at it to be comparable to an out of the box vintage model 60.
Just, keep looking. If you're only looking online, you're going to see inflated prices.
aethertech: I own a BUNCH of Ruger 10/22's in various models. My factory stock heavy barrel versions of the Ruger 10/22's all shoot as well OR "better" than any of the Marlin Model 60's I have owned in the past. Notice I said "owned in the past" - the Marlin Model 60 does not hold a candle to the convenience, reliability and looks of the Ruger 10/22's - IME. Back in the mid-1960's I and my friend were shooting his dads Marlin Model 60 in the back yard when that Marlin Model 60 went full auto for a full tube of ammo! Scared us youngsters a bit - his father later mentioned he had "worked on the trigger some". So I guess use caution in that regard. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Speaking of heavy barrel 10/22’s... I should have bought that red, white, and blue Ruger “Race Gun” from Gander Mountain years ago. Some kind of U.S, Olympic team special edition, or something like that. $700 seemed like such an extraordinary amount for a 22.
But the 10-22 mag is much easier and more convent to use than the tube mag.
DF
The mag was always a huge selling point on the 10/22 for me.
I still think of the Marlin 60 as being a $100 rifle, but I admit I get stuck in the past sometimes Every 60 I ever dealt with was reliable and accurate enough for their intended purpose.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
Dad paid $39.95 for mine, at the Coast-to-Coast hardware store, when I turned 13. It has had a hard life, but it still shoots, though not very well, and God forbid you put more than 15 rounds in that 18 round tube. Mine choked and puked a lot back in the day. Once I figured out that reducing magazine capacity made it more reliable, it perks along fairly well. It still doesn't shoot very well, though. The Marlin "carries" better than my 10/22s, but I trust the Rugers somewhat more. My Rugers DO shoot better than that poor old Marlin, which somewhere went off the rails, and doesn't shoot too well. I left it with Dad while I was in the Army, and he USED it, and it probably spent a lot of time in the pickup's rifle rack back then. Dad thought of guns as tools, and treated them as such. Oh well. I keep it around for coons, stray ferals, and such.
I have 2 stainless Marlin 60s that I don't have any particular use for and would sell them for $250 each or $500 for the pair. One has a plain hardwood stock and the other has synthetic stock with a carbon fiber pattern.
Marlins of every kind are rapidly inflating well beyond their value. The 10/22 has always had a lot more going for it anyways. The 60 is a nice looking rifle and I see the appeal, but the 10/22 has a set of attributes that cannot be beat by a Marlin semi auto.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
I doubt that Ruger will make any of the Marlin models that would compete with rifles that they already make, so none of the bolt or semi-auto rimfires, just the lever action rifles as that is a market niche that Ruger didn't have much success with when they made the Model 96s.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
I doubt that Ruger will make any of the Marlin models that would compete with rifles that they already make, so none of the bolt or semi-auto rimfires, just the lever action rifles as that is a market niche that Ruger didn't have much success with when they made the Model 96s.
Nailed it !!! Not to mention the fact that Marlin Model 60’s were never “Disposable Rifles”. 🤪
Been on the hunt for a rifle like the very first one I bought with my own money. A Glenfield Model 60 with the squirrel stamped on the stock. Haven't been able to find any under $300 that weren't just completely trashed. Man, the model 60 was always the "cheap" .22. Found a very nice 10/22 for $199, was tempted to buy it just based on price, but I passed.
How much are nice Model 60's going for in your neck of the woods? I'll head to the Reno gun show next weekend to see what I can find.
Not sure here.. The one I bought (used) about 25 years ago cost me the princely sum of $60.. And it was in about 98% condition... Still is. My son uses it from time to time and it's never failed him..
I wish you luck in finding a good one at a reasonable price..
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
I doubt that Ruger will make any of the Marlin models that would compete with rifles that they already make, so none of the bolt or semi-auto rimfires, just the lever action rifles as that is a market niche that Ruger didn't have much success with when they made the Model 96s.
The price of a new basic Ruger 10/22 is about $300, now. Guess they figure, since there’s no Marlin 60 to compete with, they can just keep jacking the price up and up.....
Went shooting with a buddy, today. He brought along a new Rossi Semiauto 22. Looked very similar to the old Marlin 795. He had just bought it (for $99). It shot fine. If they could put a tubular magazine on it, and sell it for $150, it’d be the king of the cheap 22’s. I doubt Rossi will have enough sense to do this.
The price of a new basic Ruger 10/22 is about $300, now. Guess they figure, since there’s no Marlin 60 to compete with, they can just keep jacking the price up and up.....
Went shooting with a buddy, today. He brought along a new Rossi Semiauto 22. Looked very similar to the old Marlin 795. He had just bought it (for $99). It shot fine. If they could put a tubular magazine on it, and sell it for $150, it’d be the king of the cheap 22’s. I doubt Rossi will have enough sense to do this.
Every time Rossi makes a decent product, they either discontinue it or eventually screw it up.
The early versions of their pump .22 and pump .17 HMR Winchester clones worked great and were accurate too. As were their early stainless Winchester 92 clones.
I wish they’d do a remake of the Remington Nylon 66 rifles.
As he stated, they don’t have much competition with the Marlin .22 rifles gone from the market. They’re not going to make a product that competes with their 10/22 Line of rifles.
The price of a new basic Ruger 10/22 is about $300, now. Guess they figure, since there’s no Marlin 60 to compete with, they can just keep jacking the price up and up.....
Went shooting with a buddy, today. He brought along a new Rossi Semiauto 22. Looked very similar to the old Marlin 795. He had just bought it (for $99). It shot fine. If they could put a tubular magazine on it, and sell it for $150, it’d be the king of the cheap 22’s. I doubt Rossi will have enough sense to do this.
Every time Rossi makes a decent product, they either discontinue it or eventually screw it up.
The early versions of their pump .22 and pump .17 HMR Winchester clones worked great and were accurate too. As were their early stainless Winchester 92 clones.
I wish they’d do a remake of the Remington Nylon 66 rifles.
As he stated, they don’t have much competition with the Marlin .22 rifles gone from the market. They’re not going to make a product that competes with their 10/22 Line of rifles.
You can still find the CBC/FIE GR8, the Brazilian version of the Nylon 66, in the $200 range on GB fairly regularly.
The price of a new basic Ruger 10/22 is about $300, now. Guess they figure, since there’s no Marlin 60 to compete with, they can just keep jacking the price up and up.....
Went shooting with a buddy, today. He brought along a new Rossi Semiauto 22. Looked very similar to the old Marlin 795. He had just bought it (for $99). It shot fine. If they could put a tubular magazine on it, and sell it for $150, it’d be the king of the cheap 22’s. I doubt Rossi will have enough sense to do this.
Every time Rossi makes a decent product, they either discontinue it or eventually screw it up.
The early versions of their pump .22 and pump .17 HMR Winchester clones worked great and were accurate too. As were their early stainless Winchester 92 clones.
I wish they’d do a remake of the Remington Nylon 66 rifles.
As he stated, they don’t have much competition with the Marlin .22 rifles gone from the market. They’re not going to make a product that competes with their 10/22 Line of rifles.
yes I have a very early interarms imported Rossi 62 pump and also a 92 lever lever has no safety no crazy puma emblem on the side just basic business and it's been awesome for years .got both of these used somewhere in the later 80s very early 90s
Disposable? OK,,,, lol I wonder how many rounds it would take to wear one out? I bought a used one decades ago that I fired tens of thousands of rounds thru that never broke It would need to be cleaned every 2500 rounds or thereabouts as it would begin to jam. then be good for another 2500
GunGeek: I was at a gunshop today that had two of the "J. C. Higgins" versions of the Marlin Model 60's for sale - they both were on "consignment" and priced at $295.00 and $315.00 (with very nice ring mounts and a Bushnell scope on this one). I felt they were both over-priced by at least $75.00 and they appeared in good shape+. Wish I could be more help. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
I bought one with birthday money from dad and grandparents, etc, when I was 10 (1981). Think I had $60 (maybe a little more), and I got the rifle (minus the squirrel stock) and 2 trays of CCI ammo (not sure if it was, but was in trays like minimags) at Fred’s Dollar Store!
Sold it a couple of years later to an older gentleman to help (along with yard mowing $) buy a mossberg pump 12 gauge so I could start duck hunting.
Then I bought it back about 20yrs later! Still have it now. Only in a small town!
Geez back in the day I worked for Kmart Sporting goods, sold hundreds of them for $37
I can remember our local Gibson’s Discount Center, and TG&Y selling them for $49 bucks when I was in jr high. I think the Remington Nylon 66 was $59. And the Marlin 39 was like $109. And, of course, ammo for $5 a brick.
I use to mow our famed local Conn Man & LBJ Crony Bill Sol Estes’ yard back then. He’d pay me with a nice crisp fresh $100 bill. So I was n.igger rich when I’d ride my bike to Gibson’s or TG&Y to buy a gun and some Ammo. 😬 Of course, I’d have to get Mom to fill out the paper work and take the gun home. We didn’t get a K-Mart until I was a sophomore in HS. I remember they had a decent Fishing Dept. I never payed much attention to their Guns they stocked.
Just about every kid I knew either had one of the Glenfield 60's or one of the bolt action Glenfield 20's when I was growing up. I remember the 60's being 49.95 and the 20's 44.95 at the Jamesway dept. store and Remington Mohawk .22's were .59 per 50 /5.90 brick.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
I doubt that Ruger will make any of the Marlin models that would compete with rifles that they already make, so none of the bolt or semi-auto rimfires, just the lever action rifles as that is a market niche that Ruger didn't have much success with when they made the Model 96s.
Nailed it !!! Not to mention the fact that Marlin Model 60’s were never “Disposable Rifles”. 🤪
Well I have worn out a couple with only around 8 to 10K rounds through them.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
I doubt that Ruger will make any of the Marlin models that would compete with rifles that they already make, so none of the bolt or semi-auto rimfires, just the lever action rifles as that is a market niche that Ruger didn't have much success with when they made the Model 96s.
Nailed it !!! Not to mention the fact that Marlin Model 60’s were never “Disposable Rifles”. 🤪
Well I have worn out a couple with only around 8 to 10K rounds through them.
What did you wear out ? I know the feed throats wear out and the buffers crack/break over time but both are easily replaceable and fairly cheap. I have several times that many rounds through my 989M2, which is basically a clip fed version of the 60. I think I've replaced the recoil buffer 3 times and the recoil spring once since 1976 and that's it. It still runs and shoots good today and I still use it frequently.
My dad bought me a used Model 60 around 1980 for $50. I put more than 50,000 rounds through that gun in my youth. Wore out 2 feed throats, broke a spring, and wore out the plastic buffer on the action rear - but that was it. I had to deep clean the crud out of the action every brick or so - when shooting the cheap PMC ammo. Remington ammo would run about 2 bricks before it needed cleaned.
They are surprisingly accurate guns.
I bought a new one in 1992 at Walmart for a little less than $100 on sale. Still have them both.
There have been over 11 million model 60's manufactured so there can't be too much wrong with them. They were a reasonably priced rifle that performed well.
drover
They were disposable. We used to buy new ones because they were cheaper than buying parts.
Prices will come back to reasonable when Ruger starts making new ones.
I doubt that Ruger will make any of the Marlin models that would compete with rifles that they already make, so none of the bolt or semi-auto rimfires, just the lever action rifles as that is a market niche that Ruger didn't have much success with when they made the Model 96s.
Nailed it !!! Not to mention the fact that Marlin Model 60’s were never “Disposable Rifles”. 🤪
Well I have worn out a couple with only around 8 to 10K rounds through them.
What did you wear out ? I know the feed throats wear out and the buffers crack/break over time but both are easily replaceable and fairly cheap. I have several times that many rounds through my 989M2, which is basically a clip fed version of the 60. I think I've replaced the recoil buffer 3 times and the recoil spring once since 1976 and that's it. It still runs and shoots good today and I still use it frequently.
Could have been where I was doing the shooting. Montana near Great Falls has a very fine dust. I was summer fallowing and kept the rifle in the tractor tied in an unzippped guncase for a sheath. Shot 500 rounds a week for 14 weeks. Action sort of wallowed out.
My father gave my son one last year from 1982 that had never been fired, he even had an old Bushnell scope that he had bought and never mounted. I picked up a set of rings mounted the scope and was off to the range with my son. After about 10 shots it started acting weird. Got home and discovered the buffer in the back of the receiver had dry rotted and fell apart. Picked up a couple off Ebay and it's run fine ever since.
got worried about not having a model 60 and saw that they are getting pricey, bought one from a friend last week for $140,had the original little scope, new condition, took my 7 year old grandson with me to make the purchase. The fire is lit in him as on the way home he said he wanted one of every gun made.
got worried about not having a model 60 and saw that they are getting pricey, bought one from a friend last week for $140,had the original little scope, new condition, took my 7 year old grandson with me to make the purchase. The fire is lit in him as on the way home he said he wanted one of every gun made.
This Mossberg is a pretty close match to the Marlin 60 and the one I shot was plenty accurate.
Too bad that’s not a tube fed gun.
No matter.
The problem with a tube feed is, like a magazine, it can misfeed or fail to feed. Oftentimes, just changing a magazine in a magazine gun can improve the functionality, a cheap and easy fix. IIRC this particular gun was sold in WalMarts, and elsewhere, for about 100 bucks, in the last few years. No doubt it was a deal of deals.
Speaking of heavy barrel 10/22’s... I should have bought that red, white, and blue Ruger “Race Gun” from Gander Mountain years ago. Some kind of U.S, Olympic team special edition, or something like that. $700 seemed like such an extraordinary amount for a 22.
I was at a friends the other day, hanging in his shop is a red, white and blue 10/22 stock, I bet he would sell it. We were talking about stripping and dying the wood
Geez back in the day I worked for Kmart Sporting goods, sold hundreds of them for $37
I can remember our local Gibson’s Discount Center, and TG&Y selling them for $49 bucks when I was in jr high. I think the Remington Nylon 66 was $59. And the Marlin 39 was like $109. And, of course, ammo for $5 a brick.
I use to mow our famed local Conn Man & LBJ Crony Bill Sol Estes’ yard back then. He’d pay me with a nice crisp fresh $100 bill. So I was n.igger rich when I’d ride my bike to Gibson’s or TG&Y to buy a gun and some Ammo. 😬 Of course, I’d have to get Mom to fill out the paper work and take the gun home. We didn’t get a K-Mart until I was a sophomore in HS. I remember they had a decent Fishing Dept. I never payed much attention to their Guns they stocked.
Boy do I remember the Gibson's Discount Center near me. They had a good supply of weapons and their prices could not be beat. When they announced closing down the store, firearms were sold 50% off. The line to get in the store was so long that most of the firearms were quickly sold out. Not to worry. My former SIL was getting ready to sell his M60, when I made a passing comment that he should hang on to it. He then offered it to me free of charge to which I accepted. It has a 21" barrel and hold open feature. I guess it's capacity is 18 rounds but not sure, as it's been some time since I loaded and fired it. I do remember that I liked it better than my my 10/22 for off-hand shooting. My SIL claimed he had never cleaned it all the years he owned it. So, I cleaned it up and replaced the recoil buffer. It shoots great and is accurate enough with the brands of 22LR I've tried.
I bought a wood stock Model 60 new at Academy for $159 in 2017. My brother was with me and said “I ought to get one of those too”. I told him there will come a day when you won’t be able to get one anymore new for that price. He said “eh” and was going to wait. I’ve only put a couple hundred rounds through it but it’s a great rifle. Much more fieldable than my 10/22 and a better trigger (I have a walmart 10/22 which I am convinced is a factory second). I have a soft spot for tube fed .22’s so I’m biased.
I'm in NE Canada and I bought a 2014 Marlin-60 Laminate NIB with a Barska 3-9 rimfire scope and CCI-MM x100 for $250 CDN from Orig owner who 'never got around' to shooting . This was in 2017 and $250 CDN = ca $190 USD back then (still close to that). I sold the Barska ($50) and put on a 4-12x40 Tasco ($100) and it's shooting ca 3/4" at 50 yds. I added the white butt spacer and o-ring on takedown screw, too. PS - These are going for $500+ around here (IF You Can Find one) in laminate. ( $400+ USD - exch = 1.30) And I had a Glenfield back ca 1975 - ca $50 at K-mart !
Every 60 I ever dealt with was reliable and accurate enough for their intended purpose.
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